Applicants for vacant Ohio House seat announced

COLUMBUS - A panel will meet in early January to select one of 10 applicants seeking to fill Ohio's vacant 87th House District seat. The new member is expected to be sworn in on Jan. 17.

Speaker of the Ohio House Clifford A. Rosenberger, R-Clarksville, Friday announced the applicants who met the deadline to be screened to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Wesley Goodman, who resigned last month in the wake of inappropriate sexual behavior.

Goodman, R-Cardington, resigned last month after Rosenberger was told Goodman had consensual sex with a man in his taxpayer-provided office earlier this year. More allegations of sexual misconduct and assault surfaced shortly after Goodman resigned.